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From: [e-mail] (Erwin Zwart)
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Subject: Re: Cybergraphics on Amiga vs. Windows display
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[e-mail] (Jamie Krutz) () wrote:
> In article <[e-mail]> Tim Krego <[e-mail]> writes:
> > I used to like the Amiga's ability to have individual screens for each
> > program, but that is one of the reason it has died. With all the custom
                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
ridiculous statement...
I still like it the way it always was and is.  Windows does do almost the same with
ALT-TAB.  Lately I am trying this keys on my Amiga more and more ;-)
The price of a Cybervision64 is not much more than a comparable PC S3 card.

> > screens you were stuck with the display modes of the Amiga chipset. Add a
> > highres graphics card and every program had to be re-written to support each
> > card. When all those Amiga graphics cards were incompatible you had more
> > problems.
>
> (debatable and dated digressions deleted)
>
> FYI CyberGraphX software runs on most of the cards so developers
> only have to support its 16 and 24 bit extensions and their software will run
> across multiple graphics cards. These cards are not chip-ram dependent.
> You get a whole new set of display modes to choose from and combine on
> different screens simultaneously. It's pretty slick.

yeah, it is better than Windows, because the different programs can use their own
resolutions. With Windows every program has to use the default res and color depth.
FYI I can run LW on 1024x768 and run Modeler on 1600x1280 and play MPEGs on a 24
bit 320x240 screen, while running PhotoShop on a Mac emulator on another screen.
I don't need to switch and restart like in Windows.

> LightWave animators using Amigas should check out CyberGraphX on
> their choice of display card with programs like ImageFX2.1a, ProVector 3,
> World Construction Set and Impact. Multiple dragable screens, multiple
> color depths, multiple resolutions, all simultaneously.
>
> Has anyone tried the CyberGraphX plugins for LW 4? How well do they
> work?
I use the CyberGFX render screen plugin and it displays very fast, in fact
much faster then on my P100 with Stealth64.
Layout and Modeler works also great, except from the deliberately left out features
like color wireframes, color image thumbnails and surface render previews.
And it's a pity there is no good 060 compiler/optimizer available for speed sake.
I hope that a recompile for the upcoming PowerPC boards will not be such a hassle
for Allen and Stuart.
All in all, I like my CyberAmiga(060,CV64,40Mb) more than my P100(Stealth64,32Mb).

Erwin

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